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Mystery Jack O’ Lantern

The Mystery Jack O’ Lantern is one of Rutland’s most cherished Halloween traditions, first appearing in 1961, during the second year of the Rutland Halloween Parade.

Each year, a local community hero is secretly chosen as the Mystery Jack O’ Lantern. A rhyming riddle full of clues about their identity is shared with local newspapers and schools, and Rutlanders of all ages are invited to submit their guesses online, with the mystery being revealed at parade on Saturday, Oct. 25.

Here’s this year’s Mystery Jack O’ Lantern riddle:

In South Burlington I first took flight, Halloween nights beneath the moonlight. At my buddy’s house, the haunted halls, Where shadows danced on creaking walls.

Now in Rutland, my lantern glows, At the Boys & Girls Club, the

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